Training Log Archive: bl

Dog days for sure. Hard to keep afloat right now. Had Ellen & Fred over for the boat centerboard puzzle - not rocket science, just basic mechanical relationships (?) and yet we did not come up with an answer. M occasionally hawking and quasi-choking on her post-op (vs asp pneumonia) respiratory secretions. Little wonder I didn't make it to Ernst's College Woods meet.
My admiration for older APers out on road races today. Age-group road races never run away.

Thought about kayaking but not running. Too much going on: Mocha back home from CAVES & boat stuff beginning to tyrannize and with Beth's being gone. Scott from Bow landscape also came adding to the mix.

Visit to BHS around 6:30, walk 100, run 100, then 200s. Just to keep in touch. Mild lovely, esp at Turee shore. Busy day with work, M's issues & boat work. Had US TT from April '83 @ WPR for the walking part. Mens 8.5k, 390m: Platt (68.11), Childs, Hollowell, Tarry. Women (6.7k, 310m) Margo Thornton (69.46), Sharon. Of bl (4/16/83): "downpour, obnoxious day, couldn't handle the rain temperamentally and therefore performance-wise".

Warm evening jog around the Bog. 2 trucks at the shooting gallery but no shots.

Picked up a new left lens for my glasses s/p cataract removal & had forgotten that I was getting 2 for price of one so surprised with 2 new lenses in old frames & the new clarity is distracting for the time being.

Enchanting Connecticut:

Home Sweet Home, 836 miles down the road. From WP to Essex & Lyme, then Branford today & home via 91 & 9E across NH. Could smell the barn, knew I was going a bit fast (even asked myself if I could lay hands on my wallet "in time of need"). Not 5’ later, got pulled over for 60 in 45, 800 mi on the road. Very pleasant officer - maybe helps to look/act a certain way, to tell him all you wanted to do was get home & get your dogs home too - that they’d been in the back of the car 4 nights etc etc. Oh, and that I was at West Point… more etc.

Found Beth’s current registration after one false start but told him I could not get my hands on my wallet at the moment. He could see the back seat was a mess. He does his check-the-numbers thing & wishes me well, and I’m on my way. Not a comment about the inability to produce a DL - which I did find when I stopped at Bow Mobil for gas - in the back where the dogs were holding out. Now to pick up the pieces and reassemble. Mocha with surgery at 0800 tomorrow.

C • Speed 3

I typed in a few essentials and this appeared. I was there (MI) once, thirty years after my mother died and took the identical picture. Then I wondered who might have taken the photograph. The web has an answer for most everything.
A WWW would, wouldn't it?

Decent run for most part but one flag costing 4-5' gives this a B/B-. Was low on #1, cost maybe 30". #2 - was not sure of approach & when I hit the unmapped green saplings (who'd put a point here...) continued on "in prayer".... & prayers were answered.

4 was the bad one - I picked out two cliffs in the terrain that were key in my RC. Seems they were not the two I thought they were. I climbed too high, too much exuberance. When the land started to level, I expected to see a wall, no wall. Continued on but then the slope changed & clearly I was not where I thought I was. I was on the side of a big valley... "the Valley of the Damned". Finally I stumbled on the walk to the start path (!) - so I knew I was high & to the left. Finally got to the right wall - there was another, unmapped one. #6 - investigated a nearby point, not mine. #9 went left & down. Flag was on a tiny RS in a hole - almost did not see it. #11 Mary Jo got there just after me & sat down & complained quite strongly about the lack of course consultancy. To the finish, I should have gotten in the reentrant to the NE - went too E, lost maybe 15".

All fun & games but I wish they'd get it right! The listed climb was about 50% of actual. Noted I'd been there as far back as '78...37 years.

Brown X day 2 - Splits